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Mobile has already crowded out desktop devices, as before laptops pushed PC out of the focus. What is the next thing that is going to force mobile devices out of the market? We can only guess.

But market prediction is not what we want to speak about. We prefer to live the present and find out what tools will help us to build cool mobile apps in a year to come.

We’re going to review top three picks for mobile development frameworks that will prosper in the 2019 year.

3 Of The Best Frameworks For Mobile App Development

1. Flutter

Flutter is a framework for cross-platform mobile development with an accent on a user interface. The product is backed by Google. At first sight, it seems that another cross-platform framework is nothing new, but Flutter can surprise. The toolkit enables to build native iOS and Android applications using Dart, Google’s own programming language.

What makes Flutter to stand out is the rendering of application. Frameworks like PhoneGap, Apache Cordova, Ionic use WebView to render views since for front-end languages it’s difficult to talk directly to native code. For creating visual views of the screen Flutter uses 2D engine Skia. It already comes with built-in Material Design and Cupertino style widgets. So, there is no need to use third parties widgets for IOS and Android devices.

Also, Flutter offers the best hot-reload functionality. It allows a developer to make changes to an app while on the go. So, testing can be done seamlessly without restarting the application

Flutter is a simple and fast framework, enabling to build beautiful apps for multiple platforms from a single codebase. With its customizability and extensibility, Flutter becomes a powerful alternative to the existing mobile toolkits.

2. NativeScript

NativeScript is an open source framework for creating truly native mobile applications. With NativeScript, you write your mobile application in JavaScript. What distinguishes Native Script from other cross-platform technologies is access to native platforms APIs.

NativeScript builds your applications using native iOS and Android user interface components. The applications that you create are not based on the Web, and therefore they are free from the limitations that WebView-based frameworks have. NativeScript also provides an impressive collection of plugins that allow you to use various native features of devices. Thus, if you need to connect to the API or features of iOS or Android as part of your application, you can do this with NativeScript.

3. Ionic

Ionic is a hybrid technology that allows building full-fledged projects for IOS and Android devices. The framework provides tools and services for developing cross-platform mobile apps with Web technologies like CSS, HTML5, and Sass.

Ionic fits for building native-like mobile apps, what makes it a great toolkit for PWA development. It works in combination with PhoneGap, Trigger.io and Cordova projects along with the accessibility of efficient core architecture.

The Ionic framework is a great technology to make an application in shorter terms than with traditional development. A big plus of this approach is that instead of Java / Swift / Objective-C, developers can use standard web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript / TypeScript and Angular.

The small drawback of the technology is performance, but still it worth attention because of its simplicity and speed of development.